June 20, 2012
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At its annual policy-making meeting, the Chicago-based American Medical Association announced it was going to evaluate IDC-11 as a possible alternative to replace ICD-9. According to the AMA, it will conduct more research on this issue and will report back to the House of Delegates in 2013.
June 6, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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For those devoted readers of Advocacy Corner, you’ll know that we’ve been covering the interplay between Congress and the ICD-10 October 2013 deadline long before HHS Secretary Sebelius first promised a delay in February. A new development occurred this week when Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. issued a white paper with one of the more overt calls to delay ICD-10…indefinitely.
June 5, 2012
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According to a survey from Tampa, Fla.-based staffing solutions firm, Kforce Healthcare Solutions, more than 70 percent of healthcare professionals say the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed rule to move the compliance date to 2014 will not affect their decision to continue progress with ICD-10 planning and implementation efforts. The survey of more than 300 healthcare professionals explored ICD-9 to ICD-10 transition readiness.
May 31, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The Advisory Board Company’s Ed Hock shares some of the learnings coming out of his organization’s work with client hospital organizations, which includes very granular modeling of the potential effects of the ICD-10 transition on reimbursement for specific hospital procedures and treatments
May 22, 2012
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All six of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s academic and community hospitals will be offering a course in ICD-10 readiness for medical record coders. The course, Anatomy & Physiology for Coders, presented by medical record coding, audit, and educational services vendor Barry Libman Inc., is set to be offered at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, All Children’s Hospital, Howard County General Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital, and Suburban Hospital.
May 16, 2012
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The Reston, Va.-based Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a non-profit organization formed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) that focuses on the use of Health IT to improve the exchange of healthcare information, has responded to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the extension of the compliance date from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014. WEDI says any extension of time should be put to good use, allowing for more robust assessments, remediation and testing.
May 15, 2012
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According to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, a dramatic increase in the fall death rate in older Americans is likely the effect of improved reporting quality, specifically from the 1999 update to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). The researchers say this suggests a major change in the way deaths were classified.
May 15, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today submitted comments to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding a notice of proposed rulemaking to postpone the compliance date for International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis and procedure codes (ICD-10) to October 1, 2014. In its comments, CHIME urged HHS to remain committed to ICD-10, while calling the one year delay an appropriate “middle ground” for all stakeholders.
May 14, 2012
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The American Medical Association (AMA) has sent a letter to the acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Marilyn B. Tavenner, asking for a longer delay time period to the ICD-10 transition compliance date. While AMA says it welcomes the proposed extension in the compliance deadline for ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013 to Oct. 1, 2014, it urges CMS to further extend the ICD-10 deadline at a minimum to Oct. 1, 2015.
May 10, 2012
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In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) about the ICD-10 compliance delay, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) said it continues to recommend there be no delay, but since one is likely, AHIMA stated that the association will continue to work with HHS and the healthcare industry to ensure the delay is as short as possible, preferably not more than one year.
May 9, 2012
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) recently submitted comments to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding a notice of proposed rulemaking to postpone the compliance date for International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis and procedure codes (ICD-10) one year to Oct. 1, 2014. CHIME urged HHS to remain committed to ICD-10, and called the one year delay an appropriate “middle ground” for all stakeholders.
May 3, 2012 Healthcare Informatics Editors
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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) decision to delay the compliance date for the transition to the ICD-10 coding set by one year continues to reverberate throughout the industry. The topic was a popular one in the month of April for HCI readers, who continued to try and make sense of the delay and what it means for providers, payers, and all other impacted stakeholders.
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